Richard MacManus @ricmac@mastodon.social
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In the final part of my 5-part series on the history of blogging and RSS, we come to 2003: when RSS Readers like NetNewsWire and Bloglines burst onto the scene, and when I made my official entrance into the blogosphere with a Radio Userland blog called Read/WriteWeb. Also: Google buys Blogger, WordPress debuts, and 16-year old Aaron Swartz live-blogs a Dave Winer keynote. cybercultural.com/p/blogospher

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The Blogosphere Blossoms in 2003 As RSS Readers Catch On

In 2003, the read/write web becomes a reality when blog software enables anyone to write to the web. Meanwhile, RSS Readers like NetNewsWire and Bloglines bring distribution to the blogosphere.

cybercultural.com · Cybercultural

Link author: Richard MacManus@ricmac@mastodon.social

Richard MacManus @ricmac@mastodon.social
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If you read to the end*, you'll notice I plugged the fediverse:

"If you have comments, well this isn't a blog...but you can tag me on the fediverse [links to my Mastodon a/c]— the closest thing we have today to the blogosphere of 2003."

cybercultural.com/p/blogospher

*I hope you do, I'm proud of this post!

The Blogosphere Blossoms in 2003 As RSS Readers Catch On image

The Blogosphere Blossoms in 2003 As RSS Readers Catch On

In 2003, the read/write web becomes a reality when blog software enables anyone to write to the web. Meanwhile, RSS Readers like NetNewsWire and Bloglines bring distribution to the blogosphere.

cybercultural.com · Cybercultural

Link author: Richard MacManus@ricmac@mastodon.social

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If you have a fediverse account, you can quote this note from your own instance. Search https://mastodon.social/users/ricmac/statuses/115729798692373255 on your instance and quote it. (Note that quoting is not supported in Mastodon.)